Changing the Beat

"On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly beat--sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, an artist, a scribbler--sometimes the beat is changed one person at a time." (Mary E. Pearson)

Thursday, August 20, 2015

"You're going to fail, and that's okay. Failure is part of the growth process."

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Most of the people in my life know that a lot has changed for me in the years since I graduated from Elizabethtown College. I became a teac...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

"I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me." -Jada Pinkett Smith

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On one of my first days as the Youth Coordinator for the Inner Harbor Project in Baltimore, I was sitting around the table in our office...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

"I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”

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I seem to go through these periods of time when the words that I wish I could write down just get jumbled up in my head behind a wall made o...
Monday, March 31, 2014

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print." -Barbara W. Tuchman

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What was your favorite book growing up? No really, what was it? I'll wait. If you're above the age of 25, you probably have to ...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

"It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness."

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Inspiration.  What does it mean, exactly, to be "inspired?" It's a word that is thrown about by literati, artists and mus...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. -Stephen Chbosky

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Today I sat in an Irish pub in D.C.'s Chinatown. I had just come in out of the rain, my previously curled hair disheveled and touched w...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

[Children] are vulnerable to everything dangerous around them. They are concentrating on the busy task of growing up. They aren't yet aware of the hazards on all sides. Looking out for them should be our job.

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Every day there seems to be a new tragedy making headlines. So many that I am afraid that the world's citizens are becoming desensitize...
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